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Tag: Eli Oko

  • Glasshouse by Eli Oko

    Glasshouse by Eli Oko

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    With Windows and doors With walls and floors With a surrounding so pretty and a thousand reasons to never leave They travel into the crowds amongst the civilians They pretend to hold everything in the bags they carry But it’s nothing Just hopes and dreams and the little things inbetween From the inside it seems…

  • Concrete Jungle by Eli Oko

    Concrete Jungle by Eli Oko

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    And they try to deceive us creating pop-up parks around the city centre. Giving us hope that pure air surrounds. But truthfully it’s beneath layers of the thick scent of betrayal and as another pop-up park erects between the city centre – we pick the flowers from its nurtured soil and hand it to our…

  • Protected: Truths from Eli Oko

    Protected: Truths from Eli Oko

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  • Learning to ride a bike by Eli Oko

    Learning to ride a bike by Eli Oko

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    Don’t let go of me  I kept repeating the words in my mind  Because all I could imagine was being left alone  To experience without training  To have support and then none at all  I didn’t want to imagine noone beside me  I kept my eyes focused on my destination just like you suggested  But…

  • Exposed by Eli Oko

    Exposed by Eli Oko

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    I read dark poems about life slipping between fingers  I find myself enjoying how writers explore the sentiments of life and death How they flirt with the idea of ending everything  How they claim to have nothing to lose  But I sense they hold everything they work for within their lines  The validations they have…

  • Colourful Decades by Eli Oko

    Colourful Decades by Eli Oko

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     He thinks he knows me  He thinks he truly understands how my mind works  How reality is from my perspective  But he will never know I cry from my heart.  The veins behind my eyes burst before they even water And the colour of my eyes change  I see red when I peer into my…

  • My Social Love by Eli Oko

    My Social Love by Eli Oko

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    Whatsapp’s are green Emails are blue But even my phone knows When it’s a message from you Snapchats go ping And IG belts a sound I treasure a message from you Wherever it’s found. -EO

  • Dissociation by Eli Oko

    Dissociation by Eli Oko

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    Mental Illness is more common than you wish to believe.

  • Burning by Eli Oko

    Burning by Eli Oko

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      I left my candle burning overnight I lit it to bring some sight to the blind thoughts I had So that I could not only think clearer but feel clearer too I watched the wick transpire for a second slowly I saw the wax heat up and melt It was stronger than me at…

  • OCD by Neil Hilborn

    OCD by Neil Hilborn

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    The first time I saw her… Everything in my head went quiet. All the tics, all the constantly refreshing images just disappeared. When you have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, you don’t really get quiet moments. Even in bed, I’m thinking: Did I lock the doors? Yes. Did I wash my hands? Yes. Did I lock the doors?…